"Change style seasonally. Style is not static. It's always shifting to reflect new experiences and interests – and your home should mimic that. At the beginning of every season, try putting away a few things. Then sprinkle a couple of finds into the mix. They don't even need to be new! 'Shop' from your bedroom for your living room – an vice versa." (8 ways to supercharge your style, in Apartment Therapy. Complete + Happy Home (Potter Style 2015)

PS And judging a book by its cover, there's a also a violet-covered one: I've been reading Sanna Wikström and Jutta Gustafsberg's pep talk book "Tsemppikirja" during my commute to work this Spring, and I love the following types of passages: "Puff up the (smallest) good and then surrender to it (...) You can stir up good in your life by being grateful for the smallest things: blankets, sunshine, woolen socks, friends, colors... just anything. And when you manage to 'switch' your brain to observe the good over and over again, it becomes a way of life, a way to look at life, and once you internalize this, your life is no longer dependent on what is happening around you." (My translation) ⎮ On olemassa violettikantinen kirjakin: Olen tänä keväänä työmatkoilla lukenut Sanna Wikströmin ja Jutta Gustafsbergin Tsemppikirjaa, jossa pidän seuraavanlaisista katkelmista: "Paisuta (pientäkin) hyvää ja sitten antaudu sille (...) Voit herätellä hyvää elämässäsi kiittämällä pienistäkin asioista: peitosta, auringosta, villasukista, ystävistä, väreistä… ihan mistä tahansa. Kun pystyt itse 'kääntämään' aivojasi hyvän havainnointiin yhä uudelleen ja uudelleen, hyvän näkemisestä alkaa tulla elämäntapa, tapa katsoa elämää. Kun tämän tavan oppii, ei ole riippuvainen siitä, mitä elämässä tapahtuu."

Recyclie, that's me, a foodie gone (re)cycling: This blog's all about bicycle riding, living and cooking on a shoestring, and, naturally, recycling, or "repairing, repainting, reinterpreting, reviving, redeploying or simply relishing" – to quote one of my favorite interior designers and authors, Ilse Crawford–, feminine and Finnish style, with an Italian twist. In real life, I'm a Helsinki-based interpreter and translator, as well as the author of "Reilun kaupan ruokaa ja elämää" (Perhemediat, 2009), that is, the first Finnish Fairtrade cookbook.